They are a small, but extremely stupid group of gay men who deliberately try to get HIV. They tattoo a minus sign on their arms and once they are confirmed infected, they have the minus turned into a plus sign.

Yes, I am aware that this sounds like an urban legend, but I kid you not.

Hadn't heard about bug chasers; what a tragic and self-defeating form of insanity.

There's no cure for AIDS yet primarily because people (specificially the USA) have marginalized it as either a "Gay" disease or limited to IV drug users, the poor and disenfranchized. IT IS NOT LIMITED TO ANY GROUP. AIDS is a disease that doesn't care about social status -- it is a killer, it is everyone's responsibility.

It is amazing that 25 years on and AIDS still carries the primary stigmatization that it always had, particularly in the US. Most Western countries still view people who have it as those who "deserve" to have it, most North American's still think of it as a gay male disease (1 million Chinese in Hunan and 2.3 million children in Africa might think otherwise...).

Thank you for highlighting the anniversay. As I tend to get too emotional for clear discourse on this subject.